Operating System

• US 20100037067A1
• Filed: 08/05/2009
• Published: 02/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Allscripts Software LLC (Veradigm, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Net.Orange Inc.
• Inventors: Rangadass, Vasu, Seshadri, Ravi
• Granted Patent: US 8,689,008 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/189
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/46 Multiprogramming arrangements

Abstract

A new and improved operating system comprising a series of self-contained interconnected modules and service layers for connecting proprietary systems together and extracting and translating data therefrom enables existing software systems to operate and cooperate in an existing software ecosystem while allowing flexible connections with both existing and new applications.

Claims

1. An operating system architecture comprising:

an event management services module;

a process management module connected with the event management module;

a services module connected with the process management module;

a data services module connected with the services module;

a data federation module connected with the data services module;

a security module; and

a governance module;

wherein each module comprises self-contained service layers coupled together and all modules are interconnected and communicate therebetween;

wherein the data federation module inputs into an operating system database;

wherein an external database inputs into the data federation module through an external services module; and

wherein the security module encrypts utilizing a PKI standard and wherein the governance module gets policy requirements from a policy database.

2. The operating system according to claim 1 wherein the event management services modules comprises a routing services layer which provides services associated with processing of routing requests to service providers, including routing, logging, and monitoring of messages.

3. The operating system according to claim 1 wherein the process management module comprises a configuration services layer having an extensible markup language based registry which stores data needed to support the system configuration.

4. The operating system according to claim 1 wherein the services module comprises an application services layer which contains specific information necessary to meet implementation requirements for systems incorporated into the clinical operating system.

5. The operating system according to claim 1 wherein the services module further comprises an operating system administration portal and a general administration portal, wherein the operating system administration portal comprises a reference implementation of a browser-based user interface which provides user access to web service interface.

6. The operating system according to claim 1 wherein the services module handles all security needs for all application services, wherein each service provides access to its data store by accepting typed messages routed thereto, utilizing a standard adapter that accepts, processes, and returns messages.

7. The operating system according to claim 6 wherein the application services are patient services providing an authoritative patient identifier and basic demographic information within the cOS.

8. The operating system according to claim 6 wherein the application services are practitioner services providing an authoritative identifier of healthcare providers and basic demographic information within the operating system.

9. The operating system according to claim 6 wherein the application services are clinical event services providing an authoritative index of clinical event information which is available within the context of the operating system.

11. The operating system according to claim 1 wherein the data services module comprises a data administration services layer having a set of data administration services which provide the ability to maintain data stored within each services.

12. The operating system according to claim 1 wherein the security module comprises infrastructure services layers, the infrastructure services layers comprising a security envelope, exception management, logging and auditing services, and change management services.

13. The operating system according to claim 1 wherein the governance module comprises infrastructure services layers, the infrastructure services layers comprising a security envelope, exception management, logging and auditing services, and change management services.

14. The operating system according to claim 1 wherein a message generated by the operating system comprises a message header and a payload, the payload comprising a message body and an associated message type.

15. The operating system according to claim 1 wherein the operating system connects with a clinical decision support system for providing a user of the operating system with best practices and updated clinical research and results information, the support system comprising a discovery repository, a clinical discovery logic manager module, a vocabulary repository, and an event sub-system repository.

10. The comprise a cOS administration portal and a general administration portal, the cOS administration portal comprising a reference implementation of a browser-based user interface which provides user access to web service interface. The cOS administration portal, in association with the services layers, provides the ability for administrators of the COS to maintain the data held therein.

16. An operating system architecture comprising:

a monitoring and routing module;

an operating system workflow module connected with the monitoring and routing module;

a message organ module connected with the operating system workflow module;

an external data layer module connected with the message organ module;

a virtual data layer and discovery module which inputs into an operating system data database, the virtual data layer and discovery module connected with the external data layer;

wherein each module comprises self-contained service layers coupled together and all modules are interconnected and communicate therebetween;

wherein an external database inputs into the virtual data layer and discovery module through an external services module; and

wherein the security module encrypts utilizing a PKI standard and

wherein the governance module gets policy requirements from a policy database.

17. The operating system according to claim 16 further comprising a plurality of plug-ins.

18. The operating system according to claim 16 further comprising a clinical file system for patient records, the file system comprising an encrypted protective shell;

metadata;

a yolk; and

a self-contained clinical file executable comprising relevant content;

associated access rules, and a challenge mechanism to read and write content and a self-destructing scheme after an expiry period.

19. The operating system according to claim 16 wherein the virtual data layer and discovery module comprises a federated search engine leveraging metadata from semantic information sources to disambiguate search queries to provide relevant results;

a clustering mechanism partitioning data into subsets that share common traits;

a user query invoking plug-in actions and crawler actions;

wherein the relevant results are thereafter filtered and clustered and thereafter displayed by a visualization operation.

20. The operating system according to claim 16 wherein the security module comprises infrastructure services layers, the infrastructure services layers comprising a security envelope, exception management, logging and auditing services, and change management services.

21. The operating system according to claim 16 wherein the governance module comprises infrastructure services layers, the infrastructure services layers comprising a security envelope, exception management, logging and auditing services, and change management services.

22. The operating system according to claim 16 wherein a message generated by the operating system comprises a message header and a payload, the payload comprising a message body and an associated message type.

23. The operating system according to claim 16 wherein the operating system connects with a clinical decision support system for providing a user of the operating system with best practices and updated clinical research and results information, the support system comprising a discovery repository, a clinical discovery logic manager module, a vocabulary repository, and an event sub-system repository.